niggerboy

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noun

A young black man.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounniggerboy (plural niggerboys)

plural niggerboys · alternative nigger-boy

  1. ethnicoffensiveslurA young black man.

    The niggerboy didn't ride himself, but ran along behind Mr. Wayne like a blackberry growing from the horse's tail. On Mr. Wayne's instructions the niggerboy sped back to town, and Mr. Wayne, tying his horse, crossed above the […]

    1946, Morrison Wood, The Devil is a Lonely Man, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15
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    Not only is Ty Cobb the biggest player on the field, he is also the meanest and the loudest. “Hey, you Connie Mack. You see this here? I'm runnin' my hands thru the hair of a niggerboy. All the Tigers run their hands through the hair of this here niggerboy just before they go to bat.[…]”

    2007 November 28, Bob Schroeder, The Mascots of 1911: The Year God Met the Devil in the World Series, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 16

    Wright learns how wounding it is to wear the mask of a grinning niggerboy in order to keep a job. He examines the life of the Negroes and judges it without charity or idyllic compensation—for he already knows, in his heart and his bones, that to be oppressed means to lose out on human possibilities.

    2009, Harold Bloom, Ralph Ellison (BBC Series), Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 115

Origin

Translations

Finnish neekeripoika
  • neekeripoikaTranslations
German Niggerboy, Negerjunge
  • NiggerboyTranslations
  • NegerjungeTranslations
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Polish asfalt
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Cite this entry
APA

niggerboy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/niggerboy

MLA

“niggerboy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/niggerboy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “niggerboy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/niggerboy.

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